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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Bible Believers'Newsletter 642

Christiangreetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

We are reviewing "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" Christ inspired to William Branham, the Prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 in March, 1963. If you are new to fellowship we encourage you to review the series from Newsletter #627 to the present and invite you to request our free PowerPoint presentation, "The Second Coming of Christ".

Today we begin a two-part review of the Fourth Seal into which we have incorporated the most important News Item in this week's Newsletter. It signifies the lateness of the hour, confirms that prophecy is coming to pass, and deserves careful reading of the full story, along with the third encyclical of pope Benedict XVI, and your Bible.

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive thetruth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life.Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott

Anger rises over US Tax Dollars for Settlements

July 24, 2010 — Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports millions of tax-exempt dollars from the US are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian West Bank—in flagrant violation of international law.

This is happening under the nose of the US administration despite its claims of support for a two-state solution and criticism of Israel's continued settlement building. . . According to a recent report in The New York Times 40 US groups have raised more than 200 million dollars in tax-deductable donations for Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the last ten years. US tax rules prohibit the use of charitable funds for political purposes at home or abroad. . . Religious groups have no obligation to divulge their finances, meaning settlements may be receiving sums that cannot be traced.

There are currently half a million Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. . . money has also gone towards the outposts which are illegal even under Israeli law. . . El'ad has been behind the financing and digging up of Palestinian homes in . . . East Jerusalem in order to establish a Jewish theme park. . . Full story: truth-out.org

Obama interfering in Kenyan Politics

July 25, 2010 — Obama ordered US Ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, to support the Kenyan constitutional changes proposed by Obama's cousin and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. In fact, Obama sent Vice President Joe Biden to Nairobi on June 8, 2010 to encourage Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to support the new constitution.

Biden brought promises of American investment in the East African Common Market (the precursor of the African Union [which thus far includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi], and which, ultimately, will be modeled after the European Union with a common currency), and the possibility of a contingency of US troops to protect Kenya's borders from Somalia. . . And, of course, the caveat—a $23 million "grant" to ten groups in Kenya that is being used to bribe members of the Kenyan parliament to vote "yes" on adopting the new constitution which the media in Kenya claims is supported by 62% of the Kenyan people. The Obama grant is illegal under the Logan Act. . .

The new proposed constitution . . . strengthens Sharia law . . . Making Sharia courts equal to the traditional court system is something the majority Christian population fear, and thus, oppose. Forty-five percent of all Kenyans are Christians. . . only about 10% of the Kenyan population is Muslim. . . Since the 2008 massacre of over 1,000 Christians by Islam extremists, the Christian majority has grown to fear the Muslim minority.

The Muslims argued that Sharia courts should be equal to Kenya's traditional judicial system. A provision in the new constitution, which will be voted on in Parliament on August 4, 2010, will make the Sharia courts equal to the traditional courts of Kenya. If Obama and Odinga are successful in bribing enough lawmakers in the Kenyan parliament. . .Full story: jonchristianryter.com

WWF hopes to find $60 Billion growing on Trees

March 20, 2010 — If the world's largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF—formerly the World Wildlife Fund—announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, many people might applaud, thinking this was just the kind of cause the WWF was set up to promote. Amazonia has long been near the top of the list of the world's environmental concerns, not just because it includes easily the largest and most bio-diverse area of rainforest on the planet, but because its billions of trees contain the world's largest land-based store of CO2—so any serious threat to the forest can be portrayed as a major contributor to global warming.

A hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as before... The idea is that credits representing the CO2 locked into this particular area of jungle—so remote that it is not under any threat—should be sold on the international market, allowing thousands of companies in the developed world to buy their way out of having to restrict their carbon emissions. The net effect would simply be to make the WWF and its partners much richer while making no contribution to lowering overall CO2 emissions.

WWF, which already earns £400 million yearly, much of it contributed by governments and taxpayers, has long been at the center of efforts to talk up the threat to the Amazon rainforest—as shown recently by the furore over a much-publicised passage in the 2007 report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's claim that 40 per cent of the forest is threatened by global warming, it turned out, was not based on any scientific evidence, but simply on WWF propaganda, which had wholly distorted the findings of an earlier study on the threat posed to the forest, not by climate change but by logging.Full story: telegraph.co.uk

Comment: This is a scheme whereby the thugs of 'the City of London' plan to hoodwink the world under the guise of protecting the environment from the beneficial effects of life-giving CO2 when in fact they propose to take billions under false pretenses with which to bribe compliant presidents, prime ministers and lawmakers to enact legislation mandating some form of carbon trading scheme whereby the carbon 'footprint' of corporations and nations would be assessed and monies transferred via the IMF and WB who would extract a commission and pass the funds to organizations such as the WWF to preserve their 'carbon sinks.' In turn they will employ funds to grease the palms and compromise the best traitors money can hire to sell their nations into the level playing field of servitude to the usurers, and Lucifer's one world order.

Where is the Tattoo?

Elie Wiesel has told us for over 50 years that he was tattooed at Auschwitz in 1944, and that his tattoo number is A7713. He has repeatedly said that he still has this original tattoo on his arm. Just last March in Dayton, Ohio, Elie met with the press, high school and college students, and 2,300 members of the local community. As reported in the Dayton Daily News, one student asked Wiesel if he still has his concentration camp number and if it serves as a reminder of those terrible experiences. "I don't need that to remember, I think about my past every day," he responded. "But I still have it on my arm—A7713. At that time, we were numbers. No names, no identity". . . Full story: eliewieseltattoo.com

The Fourth Seal– Part I

From the beginning there have been two spirits, God and the created being Lucifer, His original archangel and right-hand man to fellowship, the greatest person in the heavens beside God until he became the Adversary. We first encounter them in the garden of Eden where "he was the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty . . . faultless until iniquity was found in him" (Ezekiel 28:12, 15):

Genesis 2:9, "Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the eye, and good for food; the Tree of Eternal Life in the midst of the garden, and also the Tree of Knowing Good and Evil" (Genesis 2:17; 3:3).

"Tree of Life" and the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" did not grow from the ground as vegetation: these are metaphors describing two spirits that came down from heaven and appeared to Adam and Eve as the theophanies of Christ and Lucifer. We see their influence upon Abel and Cain, Jacob and Esau, Jesus and Judas, Christ and antichrist, and the true Vine and the false vine in the midst of the church as wheat and tares (John 15:1-7; Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43).

Jesus foretold, "False anointed ones [not false Jesuses] and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, IF it were possible, they would deceive the very elect" (Matthew 24:24). False anointed ones like the prophet Balaam whose history (Numbers 22) and the story of the avenging war against Midian (Numbers 31) imply that it was his advice to Balak that led the children of Israel into spiritual and natural fornication, have been in the circle of the Message from the beginning. In the first three Church Ages under the First Seal nicolaitane self-styled Jews graft into the True Vine [but not into the root] claimed preeminence over the Gentiles and introduced a separate class of priests over the laity, a high priest (pope), Passover (Easter), holy water and other elements of the defunct Israelitish temple service.

God spoke "unto the churches" plural through His Message to the angel of each Church Age, breathing eternal Life to the true vine that receives and overcomes by His revealed Word, which promises fellowship with the Tree of Life forever, and condemnation to the false vine that rejects His Message (Deuteronomy 18:18-19; John 3:18; Revelation 2:7).

The Tree in Eden that is the source of Life, was Jesus. "In John, chapters six through eight, Jesus sets Himself forth as the source of eternal Life. He called Himself the Bread from heaven. He spoke of giving Himself and that if a man ate of Him he would never die. He proclaimed that He knew Abraham, and that before Abraham, He WAS. He prophesied that He Himself would give them living waters that if man drank he would never thirst again, but would live eternally. He showed Himself as the GREAT I AM. He is the Bread of Life, the Well of Life, the Eternal One, the TREE OF LIFE. He was back there in Eden in the midst of the garden even as He will be in the midst of the paradise of God.

Some have an idea that the two trees in the garden were just two more trees like the rest of those that God had placed there. But careful students know that this is not so. When John the Baptist cried that the axe was laid to the root of all trees, he was not talking of simply natural trees, but of spiritual principles.I John 5:11 says, "This is the RECORD, God has given to us eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son." And Jesus said in John 5:40, "You will not come to Me, that you might have Life." Thus the record, God's Word, states plainly and clearly that LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE, is in the Son. It is no other place. I John 5:12, "He who has the Son has LIFE; and he who does not have the Son of God does NOT have Life." Now since the record cannot change, be taken from or added thereunto, the record stands that THE LIFE IS IN THE SON. . . Since this is so, THE TREE IN THE GARDEN HAS TO BE JESUS.

If the Tree of Life is a person, then the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a person ALSO. It cannot be otherwise. Thus the Righteous One and the Wicked One stood side by side there in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Ezekiel 28:13a "You [Satan] have been in Eden, the garden of God." The other tree is definitely Satan because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree (Matthew 7:16). Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there. They must have had a part in the sovereign plan and purpose of God in their relationship to mankind and to Himself or we could never impute omniscience to God. This is all true so far, is it not? Now the Word most definitely sets forth that from BEFORE the foundation of the earth the purpose of God was to share His Eternal Life with man.

Ephesians 1:4-11, "According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the beloved. In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; wherein He has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He has purposed in Himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him: in Whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who works all things after the counsel of His own will".

Revelation 13:8, "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him [Satan] whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." But that Life could not, and would not, be shared in any other way than through the way of "God manifest in the flesh." This was a part of His eternal and predestinated purpose. This plan was to be to the praise of the glory of His grace. It was the plan of Redemption. It was the plan of Salvation. "God being a Saviour, it was necessary that He predestinate a man who would require salvation in order to give Himself reason and purpose of being." That is one hundred percent correct and multitudes of Scripture bear it out as does the very pointed verse of Romans 11:36, "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are ALL THINGS: to Whom be GLORY for ever. Amen." Man could not directly come and partake of that Tree of Life in the midst of the garden. That Eternal Life of the Tree had to become flesh first. But before God could raise and save a sinner, He had to have a sinner to raise and save. Man had to fall. The fall which would be caused by Satan, had to have flesh to make fall. Satan had to come through flesh also. But Satan could not come through human flesh to make the fall as would Christ come in human flesh to restore the fallen. . . And when Satan had brought about that which was necessary to the purpose of God, then man could not get to the Tree of Life in the garden. Certainly not. It wasn't time. But an animal was taken and his blood shed (animal had caused the fall had it not? let animal life be shed) and then God had communion with man again (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 98:1-2; 102:2).

God's wisdom is a "tree of Life" whereas sophistry and intellectual reasoning is the mark of the beast, of Cain and his vicarious father, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, "because the carnal mind is enmity against God" (I John 3:12; 2:13-14; Proverbs 3:18; Genesis 3:15; 4:15; Matthew 11:25; Romans 8:7).

Back in Eden the Serpent was an upright creature so close to a human being he could reason and talk, yet without a soul he was pure animal. Satan took advantage of his physical characteristics to beguile and seduce Eve. Then He destroyed that pattern of the serpent, and no other beast can commingle with man. But the affinity is there. Genesis 3:14-15, "The Lord God said to the Serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [other] domestic and wild animals; you will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life: and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel".

Lucifer was the "illuminator," or "light-bringer," a kind of John the Baptist sent to lead man to the Logos and Kingdom of Michael, who is Christ, but overcome by his own beauty and wisdom (which he and his children employ without scruple, deceiving by the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life), and envious of the One who should reign, he devised a means whereby he might usurp the Kingdom of eternal Life by establishing a kingdom of death and perpetual life through natural procreation. This would be accomplished by adding to and taking from God's Word which is Spirit and eternal Life in a form we can receive by faith so that instead of Life it would bring death.

Thus God placed enmity between the physical seed of the Serpent in Cain and his accursed race who are absent from the Book of Life, which is the genealogy of the first Adam, and Adam's lineage. The physical Serpent's seed are therefore irredeemable since they are not part of God's creation but a hybrid. Besides, Jesus Christ is the last Adam, He is not the last Cain who is without a kinsman Redeemer. There is also spiritual Serpent's seed, which in addition to those who are related to Cain by genealogy include Adam's children who have hybrid God's unchanging Word with Satan's wisdom such that it is no longer His Life-giving Spirit but carnal reasoning against THUS SAITH THE LORD, and Death.

From the garden of Eden, the seed of the Serpent has persecuted the seed of the woman both natural and Spiritual, as Jesus condemned them to their face in Matthew 23:33-35 and John 8:40-44 (where they accused Him of being Serpent's seed). He warned of "Great tribulation [upon the Church throughout the Gentile dispensation commencing with the siege of Jerusalem] such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days should are shortened, there should no flesh be saved [for the rapture]: but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened" (Matthew 24:6; 15-28; Revelation 7:14; 20:4). When we reviewed the Second Seal we saw how hundreds of millions of nominal Christians have been killed by design just in the last century.

The days are being shortened by the "midnight cry" of Matthew 25:6 which is the "shout" of Brother Branham's Message (I Thessalonians 4:14-16) confirmed by the heavenly "Voice" (of Revelation 18:4) calling the wise and foolish virgin out from Rome and her harlot daughters to maturity "in the unity of the faith" (Ephesians 4:13), for "the manifestation of the Sons of God" (Romans 8:19) and the translation (I Corinthians 15:46-57).

Throughout the Gentile dispensation Christ has been building His Kingdom by incarnating Himself in whomsoever will give Him the preeminence in their life. His will is His revealed Word. He has placed each one of us on the same basis as Adam and Eve in the beginning, that is, free moral agency that our relationship might be through mutual love, not compulsion. God is incarnating Himself in the soul of His Bride by three stages of grace:

Justification by grace through faith, followed by water baptism in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctification of the spirit of our mind.

Baptism with the Holy Spirit, which is the new birth.

Satan is building his kingdom by enslaving earth-bound men to the desires of their flesh and mortal spirit, which must perish. His subjects are free to sin but otherwise bound to servitude by totalitarian force. As we have seen, Satan has insinuated Himself from the spirit of antichrist in the First Seal, to the false prophet or pope under the Second Seal, and when he is cast down to earth at the close of the Fourth Seal he will incarnate the false prophet as he incarnate Judas Iscariot (John 13:27), after which he will be known as the beast.

Genesis 4:13-16, "Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from Your face I will be hid; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one who finds me shall slay me. And the Lord said, Therefore whosoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the Presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden [which was in Egypt, so he must have begun his eastward wandering in Canaan]".

When in mortal dread Abel reluctantly informed Cain that Adam was not his father (Genesis 4:8) Cain resolved to continue the deception and callously and murdered his half-brother. This manifest the nature of his vicarious father Satan, and His utter defiance of God when confronted by the Almighty in Genesis 4:5, 9, 13-14, show him to be absolutely unhuman in characteristics, seeming even to surpass any account we have in Scripture concerning a confrontation of Satan by God. He was a farmer, and the Lord cursed the fertility of the soil, making him a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth. His descendants became international citizens or wanderers, city-dwellers who demean agrarian pursuits. Playing the part of a victim rather than the villain he is, Cain became a perpetual winger, like his children who have no land or inheritance in this world nor place in the world to come (Genesis 10:15-19; 12:6-7). For nefarious reasons this flawed trait is projected upon native peoples; and developed nations which once were self-reliant and resilient, being weakened through socialism, constant psychological manipulation through the alien-controlled "power of the air," and by the commercial medicalization of complaints externalizing solutions that are within, now see themselves as vulnerable.

Once man lived almost a thousand years, then a life span was reduced to a hundred and twenty, and now to three score years and ten. Each generation is becoming weaker physically and morally but technologically more worldly-wise through its acquaintance with the Tree of Knowledge (Daniel 12:4). Brother Branham said, "When Christ died at Calvary, every sin that was ever committed or ever would be committed was forgiven right there on the basis of the shed Blood. But it'll never do you no good till you accept it. Got to be your personal property, and that's your personal faith in a finished work that Christ has already done for you.

So salvation isn't doing a lot of good works. Grace is what brings us to God. God saves us by grace. And no man never sought God at any time. The Bible says he didn't. You say, "Why, I sought God all night." No, you never. God sought you. Man's very nature in the garden of Eden proved it. Instead of Adam running up and down the garden saying, "O Father, where art thou," it was God hunting Adam saying, "Adam, where art thou?" See? We turn the picture around. Here, this will settle it for you if there's a question in your mind. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." That settles it if He said it. All right.

We're not on that subject, we're just backgrounding a little. Get the fear away. Don't be scared that God's not going to answer prayer. God always answers prayer. The work's already finished. He's obligated; He must do it; He's got to do it to keep His Word. Notice. Now, it's a finished work.

And now, if you're dealing with sin. . . Now, maybe you never sinned, but there might be a sin that your father did, your grandfather did. He said He'd visit the iniquity of the parents upon the third and fourth generation. And each generation gets weaker and wiser as the Bible said. But it's all started from sin. Before sin ever came into the world there were no sickness in the world. And sickness came through the fall, and the fall was sin, and sin is unbelief.

"He that believeth not is condemned already." Before you even get started you're condemned. You're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. No matter how much you was dedicated on the altar, how many times you were sprinkled, baptized, poured, whatever it is, you're still a sinner, that's all, until you repent and God recognizes and seals that promise with the Holy Spirit. That's right. Then you're borned again. Then you're son and daughter of God. It's a regeneration, a new creation. Then your attributes, your thoughts are not like they were, your life is not like it was. You become a complete surrendered vessel to God, and He speaks and uses you, and you're not your own no more. But you're bought with a price. That's the price of the precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Think of it" (Hear Ye Him, #56-1215).

"And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding Him should kill him." The mark of Cain is ruthless mental dexterity, the mark of his vicarious father, the Tree of Knowing Good and Evil, for whom the ends justify the means. God is not known by letters and intellectual prowess but by the simplicity of faith in "ignorant and unlearned men." The high priests and elders of Jesus' day were born in a certain lineage and trained in the letter of Scripture, but these sincere sanctified, dedicated theologians killed the Lord of glory because they loved God, and believed they were doing Him a service. Today denominational men learned in the original tongues and man-made interpretations of the letter but devoid of faith "crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose Him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:6).

With rat cunning Cain's most zealous physical offspring impersonate the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob then lest men should recognize and slay them, raise the Divine threat of Genesis 12:3, and the deceived non-elect declared them sacrosanct. By the same perverse wisdom they impersonate Christ's church as foretold in Daniel 2; 7 – 9; 11 – 12; II Timothy 3 – 4; Jude 4; Revelation 2; 13, and 17 – 19. Their high priest impersonates the Holy Spirit by claiming to be God's representative on earth in the absence of Jesus Christ, "enthroned in the temple of God as if he is God," receiving veneration from kings and potentates. At the close of the Fourth Seal, Satan will be cast down to earth to incarnate "that man of sin, the son of perdition" (II Thessalonians 4:3-4; Revelation 12:7-10).

People envision Satan as a monster with hooves and horns, sharp teeth and rough manners. On the contrary, he is the learned theologian who confronted Jesus with Scripture (Matthew 4:1-11). Were you to meet him in the flesh, you would encounter a charming gentleman, a holy man who would converse as a dear friend. When Jesus engaged with the prostitute at Jacob's well He revealed her sins; instantly she saw He was the Messiah, "for the Word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12). By this sign God identified Himself to Abraham, veiled behind the flesh of a created Man before the destruction of Sodom in Genesis 18, and revealed "Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, and today and forever" veiled behind the flesh of the Prophet William Branham, a sinner-saved by grace (Hebrews 13:8; Luke 17:28-30).

"Faith comes by hearing and understanding the revealed Word of God" (Romans 10:17). Outwardly the prostitute was a sinner but in her heart was an elect soul. Jesus is redeeming souls; our bodies cannot receive faith and must return to the dust. Outwardly He could not lay a finger on the priests and theologians of His day who were sincere, sanctified men of prayer, but they were sincerely wrong so that inwardly their souls were black with sin, which is unbelief in the revealed Word of God, so when Jesus revealed Himself by the same sign they called Him "Beelzebub," the chief of demons.

Christ's Bride of all Ages is Spiritually redeemed, or born-again under the first Four Seals of Revelation 6:1-8. Physically we are redeemed under the Seventh Seal, which commenced with Christ's second or 'parousia' Coming through the mouth of His Prophet William Branham in 1963: the revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form (I Corinthians 13:10; I Thessalonians 4:14-16; Revelation 10:1-7). "The folly of those who are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth (i.e. Christ the Word) but resist the Truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, is made manifest to all the saints" (II Timothy 3:7-9). From the Greek they know Christ's second Coming is a 'parousia' and not His physical 'erchomai' return, but they failed to see that without a prophet there can be no 'parousia' of Christ or of Satan yet their leaders have "presumed" to take the place of the Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 18:20; Amos 3:7).

The "times of the Gentiles" commenced with Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and captivity of the apostate Judeans; his forced worship of the image of a holy man, Daniel the prophet, and a Message from the Lord written on the palace wall in unknown tongues marked the destruction of the superpower of the first Gentile world empire of Babylon, the head of gold, in drunken revelry. This Age is going out the same way. Like the Judeans, the so-called Christian church is apostate and her congregations are souls imprisoned now, enslaved by Babylon the Great, the mother of (once) Protestant harlot daughters and abominations of the earth, and know it not (Revelation 17:5; 3:17-20).

"As she has glorified herself and lived wantonly, repay a like measure of torment and grief: since she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and will never see sorrow. Therefore in one day her plagues will be upon her, pestilence, mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for mighty is the Lord God who judges her" (Revelation 18:7-8; 2:21-23).

The once Christian world has abandoned the Word of God as those nations have abandoned their laws and constitutions (Proverbs 22:28). Through multiculturalism, which is a euphemism for miscegenation and accursed of God (Genesis 1:11; 3:15; 4:14; 9:1-4; 9:25; Deuteronomy 7:1-3; Daniel 2:43), we have mingled our blood with the children of Cain which is a repetition of the original sin and genocide to Adam's race. Christians should be a separated people, but our nations and worldly churches are revel-rousing like the sinners at Belshazzar's feast. The abundance of tongues in this day is further proof that the Gentile dispensation is almost over. Very soon God will take His children Home and return to Israel.

We live in the end of the fourth Gentile world empire which will rule to the consummation when it shall be broken in pieces by the Word of God. Shortly after the close of the Gentile dispensation and the Homecoming of Christ's Bride, the US superpower of iron, crippled by the earthquake of Revelation 6:12; 11:19, and 16:18-19, will be invaded by the Russian superpower of clay. Uniting a federation of religions the pope will restore peace and be acclaimed president of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government whereon he will confirm a covenant with the Jewish banksters, refinance the US dollar with gold backing and thereby control all people and rule their nations (Daniel 7:23-25; 8:25; 9:27; Revelation 13:1-18; 17:8-17). Thereafter, the United States, which is image of Imperial Rome, and the Protestant church, which is the image of Papal Rome, will force the worship of that 'holy' man, the Devil-incarnate pope (Revelation 13:11-18).

Soon the Fourth and Fifth Seals will be fulfilled and the Sixth Seal will manifest. Brother Branham said, "I believe, one of these glorious days, when this united confederation of church goes together, and the new pope is brought out of the United States and put over there according to prophecy, then they'll form an image like unto the beast. And I tell you, the true Church of God will be drove together. The real, true believers out of Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, whatever they'll be, will go together and cemented by the love of God, that'll make the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the believers. And agnostics and shallow-minded will be cast to one side; they'll go right on into the confederation of churches" (Acts of the Holy Spirit, p. 12:87).

Last week I received the following commentary by Catholic priest Peter Scott. This is important and should be read in full and in conjunction with the papal encyclical. Peter Scott's astute eye has detected Benedict's rhetorical sleight of hand; if he can remove his purple-tinted spectacles and look through the eyes of Melchisedec he will see the end of the Gentile dispensation is imminent. Daniel 9:27 is about to be fulfilled wherein "The prince of Rome will confirm a covenant for one week [of seven years, being the time of Jacob's trouble, or the tribulation of Daniel's Seventieth week (Jeremiah 30:7)] with the so-called Jews: and in the midst of the week [after the Hebrew prophets of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11 have "finished their testimony"] he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation [which the self-styled Jews and apostate Israelites will restore in a new temple] to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations [Judaeo-Roman Catholicism] he will utterly defile the sanctuary (Isaiah 14:13; Daniel 8:11, 23-27; 11:31-45; 12:6-13; Revelation 11:7-13; 12:13-17; 13:1-8; 15-18), even until the consummation (Isaiah 10:23; 28:22), and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate"—those without Christ in this world and no place in the world to come (Revelation 17:8; 19:11 – 20:6).

The Humanist Manifesto and Benedict XVI's Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate

July 23, 2010 — By their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels launched the modern socialist movement that drew the logical conclusion from the principles of the French Revolution and declared that 'the private ownership of productive property is regarded as invalid and immoral, while ownership of consumers' property is allowed' (E. Cahill, S.J., The Framework of a Christian State, p. 158). It would seem preposterous to draw a parallel between this atheistic document, cause of revolution, wars, murders, and sufferings without number, and the third encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate, dated June 29, 2009. Yet an examination of the text demonstrates that it truly is a manifesto of humanism, drawing to their logical conclusion the principles of the French Revolution, rejecting all exclusive and private ownership of the Truth, by Catholics as by others, allowing it simply to be shared and communicated, that is consumed by all in equal fraternity and liberty.

As Catholics, how could we not be outraged by such a comparison? After all, what seems more Catholic than the title 'Charity in the truth,' which is clearly modified from the expression used by St. Paul, 'that henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive, but doing the truth in charity' (Eph 4:14,15: note, however, the transformation)? What is more reassuring than the constant reminder that charity and the truth cannot be separated, for 'truth needs to be sought, found and expressed within the ‘economy‘ of charity, but charity in its turn needs to be understood, confirmed, and practiced in the light of truth' (§2)? What is more elevated than a new view of the social question that goes above and beyond the simple question of 'justice' and 'rights' mentioned by pre-conciliar Popes, for 'charity is at the heart of the Church's social doctrine' (§2)? What is more consoling than the affirmation that 'it is not a case of two typologies of social doctrine, one pre-conciliar and one post-conciliar, differing from one another: on the contrary there is a single teaching. . .' (§12)! What is more necessary than the reminder that man needs God: 'because integral human development—requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God' (§11).

Yet the similarity with Catholic teaching goes no further than the words used, words whose meaning is radically changed. The first inkling of this is contained in the very title. The encyclical is not addressed uniquely to Catholics, but also to 'all people of good will.' The understanding and acceptance of this document is not something that requires the Catholic Faith. This is also clearly apparent from the introduction, which does not pretend to outline the principles of a Catholic social order, but rather the principle for 'integral human development' for all men, which is charity. There is, from the very beginning of this encyclical, a new concept of charity, which 'is the principal driving force behind the authentic development of every person and of all humanity' (§1)! Clearly the Pope cannot be speaking of the supernatural and infused virtue of charity, for that would be to affirm that every man is in the state of sanctifying grace and that no man is in mortal sin! . .The novelty of this encyclical and its principal practical focus is without a doubt globalization, defined as 'the explosion of worldwide interdependence' (§33). In itself, the Pope describes this phenomenon as 'neither good nor bad' (§42). However, he encourages us to view it not just as a predetermined economic process, but rather to see it in a positive sense: 'We should not be its victims, but rather its protagonists'. . .

The most shocking and long-reaching conclusion of this positive promotion of globalization on a human and cultural as well as economic level is the call for an international authority to impose it legally, to enforce in an obligatory manner the dialogue between economies, cultures, religions, and peoples as promoted by this integral humanism. The Pope in fact calls 'for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth, . . . to arrive at a political, juridical, and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all people in solidarity' there is urgent need of a true world political authority (which) would need to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all. . .' (§ 67). This means the loss of national sovereignty and any possibility of union between Church and State. It means the establishment of the one world order that Freemasonry has long fought to achieve. . .

Rome has ruled the world since the break-up of Alexander's empire, and Rome will rule to the consummation. Not having the Holy Spirit the good priest does not understand that the rider of the four horses of the Apocalypse is Satan incarnating himself into his kingdom in four stages. As the antichrist spirit he rode in conquest through the Ephesian, Smyrnean and Pergamean Church Ages on a white horse as if he were Christ. But "we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us . . . thanks be to God, who gives us the victory" (Romans 8:37; I Corinthians 15:57). By "the deeds of the nicolaitanes" Satan set up a clerical hierarchy through which he overrules the laity. The "deeds" were made "doctrine," and in the manner of Balaam, substituted for God's Word at the First Nicea Council where the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church organized. Having amassed spiritual power, he created the unscriptural office of pope. The false prophet received a crown and went forth on his red horse with a great sword to take peace from the earth and to kill all who refused his mark of the beast, which is the trinity doctrine. With church and state united and wearing a triple crown signifying dominion over heaven, earth and purgatory he killed all opposition, resulting in almost a millennium of Dark Ages in the Thyatira Church Age in which God likened Rome to Jezebel, "teaching ministers to commit idolatry and partake her pagan dogma".

In the Sardis and Philadelphia Church Ages Satan rode his black horse hindering the Protestant Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of false worship and the worldwide missionary outreach under the Third Seal. By demonic activity the self-styled Jews abused Martin Luther's kind trust and sent the antinominian Jew, John Calvin, to infiltrate the Protestant movement and turn grace to dis-grace. Satan instituted the Jesuits and established many cults including the Rosicrucians, modern Freemasonry, the Illuminati, Theosophical Society, Seventh Day Adventists and their offshoot the Jehovah's Witnesses (so-called), Christian Science (so-called) and the Mormons.

In Scripture a beast symbolises a power, and in 1906 Satan changed from his black horse to a sickly green-coloured horse encompassing all of the evil attributes of the previous horses, for after the Laodicean Church Age and this antitype of the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of Israel's Pentecostal Feast, he will be cast down to earth to incarnate the pope, "that man of sin," thereafter called "the beast," and ride to perdition with his followers. When the Lord began calling the wise and foolish virgin out from Rome and her (once) Protestant harlot daughters by the revelation of the Seven Seals, the pale horse rider was "gathering the denominational thorns and briers whose end is to be burned," uniting the churches into the Charismatic movement and ecumenism of Vatican II with all religions under Rome, for the false vine has her revival first (Matthew 13:30; Hebrews 6:8).

Christ will take His Bride Home before the tribulation of Daniel's Seventieth Week, and all who remain and refuse to worship or serve the beast will be martyred.

In his encyclical, Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI shows that the Roman Catholic church of this day is preparing to rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. "[Our] 'leaders' are all fine actors, and certainly not true rulers . . . This is true not only in the world of politics but is equally true of banking, industry, academia, and religion" (L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy)."So you see, my dear Conningsby, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." . . . "Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand" (Benjamin Disraeli, Conningsby). nl642.htm

Passit on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is anon-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarilyto other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastorsBible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and welcome.

We are reviewing "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" Christ inspired to William Branham, the Prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 in March, 1963. If you are new to our fellowship we encourage you to review the series from Newsletter #627 to the present and invite you to request our free PowerPoint presentation, "The Second Coming of Christ".

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Obama moves away from 'Freedom of Religion' toward 'Freedom of Worship'?July 19, 2010 — Since the initially strong language on religious freedom used in President Obama's Cairo speech, presidential references to religious freedom have become rare, often replaced, at most, with references to freedom of worship. A purposeful change in language could mean a much narrower view of the right to religious freedom. Does this change of language indicate a change of policy?

Language matters when it comes to defining freedoms and limits. A shift from freedom of religion to freedom of worship moves the dialog from the world stage into the physical confines of a church, temple, synagogue or mosque. Such limitations can unleash an unbridled initiative that we have only experienced in a mild way through actions determined to remove of roadside crosses, wearing of religious T-shirts and pro-life pins as well as any initiatives of evangelization. It also could exclude our right to raise our children in our faith, the right to religious education, literature or media, the right to raise funds or organize charitable activities and the right to express religious beliefs in the normal discourse of life. . . Full story: catholic.org

Berg seeks Special Prosecutor to investigate ObamaJuly 16, 2010 — Former Pennsylvania Assistant Attorney General Philip Berg filed for a Petition for Rehearing En Banc under the False Claims Act of 1863 in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The filing is an appeal to Case 08-cv-01933RWR, stemming from Berg v Obama, 656 F.Supp. 2d 107 (D.D.C. 2009); order on June 9, 2009 dismissing Berg's case and a September 21, 2009 Memorandum and Order denying Relator's Motion for Reconsideration.

This Qui Tam case is based on the False Claims Act of 1863 (31 USC § 3729-3733 [generally referred to as the "Lincoln Law"] which allows people not affiliated with the government to file law suits against people who commit fraud against the government. Berg chose that filing because of the nature of the false claims which are affirmations by Barack Hussein Obama that he's a citizen of the United States even though he cannot, or will not, produce evidence that he is—since Berg believes Obama knows he's not. The basis of Berg's lawsuit is that a fraud was perpetuated on the People of the United States by Obama when he ran for, was elected to, and fraudulently held, the office of US Senator from Illinois. Berg pleads for and demands the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations of election fraud against Obama. The special prosecutor's job would be to determine whether or not grounds exist to prosecute the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for fraudulently representing himself as a citizen of the United States and seeking and holding political offices he could neither constitutionally seek nor hold. . . Full story: jonchristianryter.com

The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom – Part IIINew Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific DictatorshipJuly 5, 2010 — War, genocide, persecution and human degradation are directly the result of decisions made by those who control the apparatus of power, whether the power manifests itself as intellectual, ecclesiastical, spiritual, militaristic, or scientific. The most malevolent and ruthless power is that over the free human mind: if one controls how one thinks, they control the individual itself. The greatest human achievements are where individuals have broken free the shackles that bind the mind and let loose the inherent and undeniable power that lies in each and every individual on this small little planet. . .

Through all of human history, tyrants have used coercive force and terror to control populations. With the Technological Revolution, elites increasingly have the ability to control the very biology and psychology of the individual to a point where it may not be necessary to impose a system of terror, but rather where the control is implemented on a much deeper, psychological, subliminal and individual biological manner. While terror can prevent people from opposing power for a while, the scientific dictatorship can create a personal psycho-social condition in which the individual comes to love his or her own slavery; in which, like a mentally inferior pet, they are made to love their leaders and accept their servitude...

[Bertrand] Russell explains that eugenics plays a central feature in the construction of any world government scientific dictatorship, stating that, 'Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton'. . .

In a 1962 speech at UC Berkeley, Aldous Huxley [said] . . . if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they are living—the state of servitude—if you can do this, then you are likely to have a much more stable, a much more lasting society; much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs, and firing squads and concentration camps. . .

That inequality is derived from human biology—from genetics; it is a 'human fact.' It just so happens that elites who propagate this ideology, also happen to view the masses as intellectually inferior; thus, there can be no social equality in a world with a technological intellectual elite. So eugenics must be employed, as the UENSCO paper explains, to address the issues of raising human welfare to a manageable level; that the time will come where elites will need to address the whole of humanity as a single force, and with a single voice. Eugenics is about the social organization and control of humanity. Ultimately, eugenics is about the engineering of inequality. In genetics, elites found a way to take discrimination down to the DNA. . .

We seem to be increasingly unwilling to accept what we view as imperfection in ourselves and others. As health care costs skyrocket, we are coming to accept a bottom-line, cost-benefit analysis of human life. . . If gene or drug therapy is substituted for improving our workplace or school environments, our diets and our exercise practices, how close is this to eugenics? Significant social changes are expensive, however. If eugenics means making reproductive decisions primarily on the basis of social cost, then we are well on that road. . . Not only was the field of genetics born of eugenics, and heavily financed by the same monied-interests that seek social control; but so too was the field of population control. . . Population is seen as an environmental issue because the larger the population, the more resources it consumes and land it occupies. In this concept, the more people there are the worse the environment becomes. Thus, programs aimed at controlling population growth are often framed in an environmentalist lens. There is also a distinctly radical element in this field, which views population growth not simply as an environmental concern, but which frames people, in general, as a virus that must be eradicated if the earth is to survive. . .

'[Julian] Huxley believed that eugenics would one day be seen as the way forward for the human race,' and that, 'A catastrophic event may be needed for evolution to move at an accelerated pace. . ." Richard Tren, President of Africa Fighting Malaria, said that, 'In the 60 years since DDT was first introduced, not a single scientific paper has been able to replicate even one case of actual human harm from its use.' At the end of World War II, DDT was used on nearly every concentration camp survivor to prevent typhus, and the 'widespread use of DDT in Europe and the United States played vital roles in eradicating malaria and typhus on both continents.' Further, in 1979, a World Health Organization (WHO) review of DDT use could not find 'any possible adverse effects of DDT,' and said it was the 'safest pesticide used for residual spraying and vector control programs'. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca. (Related: Dysgenics or Eugenics)?

Comment: Restriction on the use of DDT is for the purpose of eugenics. The author presents the alternative of slavery to the power elite or freedom by human genius and works. But salvation does not lie in intellectual works and technology so either option means servitude to Rome and Satan, for the grace of God and the Word of His Prophet is denied.

Agenda 21 ExposedNow many of the goals and concepts behind 'sustainability' do not sound bad at all. Tyranny and government oppression is never marketed as such in the open—one always must have publicly admirable goals in order to justify any agenda that a regime is trying to promote. . .

The United States was founded on the principles of natural law codified in our Constitution, which formed and guaranteed a republican form of government. . . where the rule of law governs above the whims of mankind. Great philosophers such as John Locke saw that the sole purpose of civil government was the protection of private property from theft by larger groups of people. . . However, the creation of this supergang known as government created great dangers as well, and could be more harmful than any gang if it exercised arbitrary powers. That is why the founders established very limited powers to the central government . . . codified in the United States Constitution. . .

Democracy, on the other hand, is the rule of the majority, not the rule of law. The United States was not set up as a democracy as our founders despised democracy because it undermined the very reason for the foundation of civil government: the protection of private property. Benjamin Franklin said, 'Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.' In a democracy, if 51% of the people vote to steal from 49% of the people, they can do so (and regularly do). . . While our elected officials are elected in a democratic fashion, they are constrained by the rule of law—the United States Constitution, which gives them limited powers to violate the private property rights of others. . .

Unfortunately, our republic is being destroyed. Individual rights, as guaranteed by the United States Constitution, are being mocked and dismissed by our public school system. Instead of teaching the true history and intent of our country’s Founders, public education has become the most useful tool to justify corrupt Supreme Court decisions which ignore the framer's intent, and treat the document as a living, breathing entity which can be changed at will by the same government it is supposed to be constraining. . .

In order to get people to give up their natural rights, you have to redirect their focus on something greater than themselves. . . The Report from Iron Mountain . . . discussed the challenge of controlling the masses in times of peace. The answer involved creating a series of new wars against ideas, instead of actual nation-states . . . The most intriguing idea generated in the report was the ability to mobilize people to confront an environmental crisis by convincing them that if they did not act in submission to their government in support of these goals they risked their own lives and the lives of future generations. Such language pervades UN Agenda 21. In the Report from Iron Mountain they even suggest deliberately polluting the environment or making up a fake crisis in order for people to submit to a more powerful government. . .

Why would multinational corporations be promoting sustainable development? Believe it or not, they are the biggest beneficiaries of enhanced government powers, because they most directly control the government through the big money campaign contributions to elect these officials. Did you ever wonder why members of both political parties were rushing to bail out Goldman Sachs, when 90%-plus of the population were against it? Follow the money. . .

Socialism is the lie spoon-fed to the masses, like the ideals of democracy, sustainability, and manmade climate change, to get people to go along with the corporatist takeover of their property rights. This is what we are fighting. It is 'We the People', as individuals and small business owners, against global multinational corporations who promote the sustainability agenda to increase control and corporate profits, making the average person dependent on these same corporations and the state itself. Full story: agenda21isevil.com. Watch "Agenda 21 for Dummies Depopulation," and "NWO Depopulation Plans Exposed, Agenda 21 Club of Rome EnvironMentalism".

Comment: Democracy is not possible in a party political system because banksters control political parties, and usurers are the enemy of God and man. "The mystery of lawlessness is already working" imposing Hegelian sham democratic government on the nations by colonial troops of the 'City of London'.

The neo-Malthusian "climate change" hoax foisted upon the US Government in the Club of Rome's 1972 tract, "The Limits to Growth," was followed in 1980 by the CFR, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, and Rothschild-controlled IMF as the "Global 2000 Report to the President," and "Global Future: A Time to Act" goes back at least to H. G. Wells (1866-1946). These plots for global depopulation and "Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace" feature in previous Newsletters and Teachings.

Iranian Scientist offered $50 Million by CIA and Mossad to Lie to YOU about Iranian ThreatJuly 15, 2010 — Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, 32, claimed he had been offered $50 million by the US to remain in America and 'spread lies' about Iran's nuclear work. He repeated that he was kidnapped in 2009 when on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and taken to the US. The scientist also said Israeli agents were involved in interrogating him. . . 'Americans wanted me to say that I defected to America of my own will to use me for revealing some false information about Iran's nuclear work,' Amiri told reporters at Tehran's International Imam Khomeini Airport. 'I was under intensive psychological pressure by CIA. . . the main aim of this abduction was to stage a new political and psychological game against Iran. . . Israeli agents were present at some of my interrogation sessions and I was threatened to be handed over to Israel if I refused to cooperate with Americans'. Full story: sott.net

Netanyahu: U.S. Easily ManipulatedJuly 17, 2010 — A recently-revealed tape has shown Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, discussing ways to undermine the Oslo Accords and calling the United States "easy" to manipulate.

The video was filmed in 2001, apparently without Netanyahu's knowledge, during a meeting with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. It aired on Friday night on Israel's Channel 10. "I know what America is," Netanyahu said. "America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way."

Netanyahu also spoke extensively about undermining the Oslo Accords, the agreement signed in 1993 which set a framework for future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. . . Full story: aljazeera.net. Be sure to follow the links and watch the video mondoweiss.net which has English subtitles. What is clear from the Ben-gurion Scandals—How the Hagannah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews is the racialist hatred of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic Zionist Jewry toward the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 3:15), particularly those in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and other parts of the ancient Assyrian empire, expressed through puppet colonies of 'their City of London,' mainly Britain and the USA. This file also contains some impossible propaganda. It is interesting to add that the US Flag appears to be patterned after the flag of the City's British East India Company.

Two State HypocrisyQuoting Genesis 12:3, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curses thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed," a minister wrote: How blind and stupid are America's leaders. According to our "pulpiteers," America can only be blessed by helping the bandit "Israelis" whom they call Israel?

If Israelis are the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Israel, why does the United States lead the world in the number of prisons; more natural disasters in last 15 years than in all the previous years combined; the largest debtor nation in the world, a dumbed-down educational system, (relative recent survey showed America ranked 47th in world in education, especially in areas of math and science), a bankrupt economic system existing only by use of fiat money which will eventually entirely collapse, another generation of lost insecure youth addicted to recreational drugs, a "mad" society (more people today taking "meds" that do not benefit the psyches of the desperate souls addicted to this toxic type approach in their efforts to obtain mental health).

This doesn't appear to me to be the characteristics of a "blessed" nation, especially so in the last few decades.

". . . The current argument for creating two states is simply another attempt to carve out a Jewish state, called Israel, where Jews have by law superior rights to non-Jews. It involves ethnic cleansing, segregation, and racism; it is definitely not a formula for lasting peace.

American support of a racist, apartheid state is contrary to what we Americans profess to believe. . . Americans claim to endorse equal rights of citizenship everywhere in the world, except Israel". Full story: Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, executive director of Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization seeking to build a memorial in Deir Yassin, a former Palestinian-Arab village near Jerusalem, to commemorate a massacre there on April 9, 1948, in which 107 villagers were killed by forces from the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups).

Comment: An astute observation. Non-Semitic so-called Israelis are the sworn enemy of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (See Genesis 27:39-41; Jewish Encyclopedias, Josephus and contemporary historians). Goes to show the churches are apostate and cannot be led by the Holy Spirit. No wonder, for the past 47 years, Christ has been calling the wise and foolish virgin OUT from Rome and her once Protestant harlot daughter churches (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4).

The Rothschild's Demon in IsraelAn evil force has been put into place in Jerusalem and has spread throughout Israel, in preparation for . . . the seat of the anti-Christ. For if we are to believe that the anti-Christ is to have his seat on the Temple Mount, then we must come to grips with some truths not being preached today.

The non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews are pawns manipulated by their kinsmen in Satan's end-game mastered by the Talmudic subterfuge of the followers of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank, most notably Rothschilds who would be kings of this world and to whom one may trace the modern Illuminati, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, RothIsm, Zionism, Communism, Nazism, and the anti-Semitic state of racist, Marxist Israel.

After the close of the Gentile dispensation "The Lord shall extend His hand yet a second time to recover the remnant of blood Israelites [not Jews]" (Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 3; Romans 8:28-33; 11:25-31). Full story: thephora.net

Planetary Triple Play makes Special Appearance Venus, Saturn and Mars will be visible after Sunset in Western SkyJune 2, 2010 — If you live in the northern hemisphere, go out any night this week an hour or so after sunset and look at the western sky to catch a planetary triple play starring Venus, Saturn and Mars. . . The first thing skywatchers will see—weather permitting—is the brilliant planet Venus, slightly north of west, in the constellation Gemini. Look for Gemini's twin first magnitude stars, Pollux and Castor, just above Venus. As the sky gets darker, the planet Mars can be spotted to Venus' left as it appears in the constellation Leo very close to the bright, first magnitude star Regulus. Further still to the left will be Saturn shining in the western part of the constellation Virgo. . . in the first week of August, the planets will be crowded into a 7-degree angle, and Mars will now be to the left of Saturn in Virgo. Venus, too, will have moved into Virgo. Full story: msnbc.msn.com

Comment: Apologies for this late posting. Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. To the naked eye it will look as large as the full Moon. This will culminate on August 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off Earth. Be sure to watch the sky on August 27 at 1230hrs. It will look like the Earth has two Moons.

I John 5:7-8, "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, [Christ] the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are One. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one [live birth]".

Modern Pentecostals are the Laodiceans—materially rich and in need of nothing, but for all their exuberant joy and confusion of tongues they are Spiritually bankrupt, naked of the Blood, and blind to the apostolic faith, as prophesied by our Lord Jesus. Laodicea means "people's rights," or communism, and today at the end of the Gentile dispensation of grace, our world, overshadowed and oppressed by the spirit of Laodicea, is on the cusp of the lawless age of Aquarius. Soon that lawless one, exposed to us through the revelation of the Seven Seals, will be revealed to the world, coming as Satan's man with great power, pretended signs and lying wonders, deceiving those who are to perish under the strong delusion of revival and reformation of church and state (II Thessalonians 2:8-12).

The Pentecostal Message of the baptism with the Holy Spirit completed the reformation of the Roman Catholic system of false worship begun by justification by grace through faith in the Sardis Church Age and complimented by sanctification in the Philadelphian Church Age. So when the Message to Laodicea baptized the last member of the Body predestinated to be born-again of PART-Word, Christ's mediation was fulfilled. And when the Laodiceans rejected "the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave Him [after His ascension] to show to His servants things which must shortly come to pass and which Jesus sent and signified by His angel [William Branham] to His servant John," they put Christ outside the church(Revelation 1:1; 3:20).

A different measure of Spirit-quickened Word was allotted to each Church Age. So long as the Bible was sealed, Christ received the Word for the Age and interceded for the ignorant errors of His elect so that the Laodicean saints were justified, sanctified and baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Prophet explained, "You can be sanctified without being justified, and you can be justified without being sanctified. You can be sanctified without receiving the Holy Ghost. It's exactly. The disciples in John 17:17 was sanctified and given power to cast out devils and still didn't have the Holy Ghost. See? Sure. Had to go up to Pentecost and wait till the Holy Ghost come. That's where Judas showed his colours. See how that spirit worked its way through justification and sanctification, but when it come to the end, he showed his colour. (See)? That's right" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 251:9).

The Reformation ended before the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963 so when Christ descended with the open Book He swore by Himself that there should be "time no longer" (Revelation 10:1-6): judgment would not be delayed by further intercession. Thus, despite their noble intentions, nothing will be accomplished by those seeking to impeach Marxist usurpers such as president Obama and Australia's Prime Minister Gillard (against whom charges of treason have been brought), or pleading II Chronicles 7:14, because the Lord is about to smite the Earth with a curse by casting down Satan to incarnate "the [papal] lawless one, that man of sin, the son of perdition" (Malachi 4:6; II Thessalonians 2:3, 8; Revelation 12:7-13).

Because the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals the focus of ministry throughout the Church Ages was the justification of those predestined to be born-again of PART-Word through Christ's mediation, so when the last Laodicean saint was born-again the first three chapters of Revelation and Christ's mediatorial work were fulfilled. Redemption was over because His end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites are predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word, thus we were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and do not require mediation. We are born of the unadulterated faith once delivered to the apostolic saints plus the mysteries of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10, which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals, while Israel will be born-again through the revelation of their Seven Trumpet mysteries. Thus the focus of ministry today is redemption revealed—how Christ has redeemed His Bride in each Age, and who they are.

'Judas showed his colours' by not going up to Pentecost to receive the Holy Ghost; and in rejecting this end-time Message the world church system is "crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and exposing Him to open shame" (Hebrews 6:6; Revelation 3:17-20). We are not living in the days of the Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship, but in the time of the restoration of "the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" and the capping of the pyramid of the stature of the perfect Man with the perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication (Jude 1:3; Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:1-11; Romans 8:19; Ephesians 4:13).

Like the apostate Hebrew denominations, the Gentile denominations by their traditions have made the Word of God of no effect to their congregations, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:1-9). This is why there are no denominational revivals, and why, as Brother Branham said when delivering the Third Seal, "The Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it" (ibid, p. 253:3). And about a decade later the revelation gradually began to open to the believers.

Brother Branham placed great emphasis on the simplicity of God in the second or 'parousia' Coming of the Lord "as a thief in the night" to waken the wise and foolish virgin and steal His Bride away to the Wedding Supper in the Air. He explained how this Coming, although universal, would be in such a simple manner that only an election would recognize it through believing and understanding (not believing and memorizing) the simple Message of the humble prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7. And that although he would be thoroughly vindicated by the same signs that identified Jesus as God's Messiah, he would be rejected by denominational people whose absolute was their traditions and not God's Holy Bible.

"Now, it didn't say He'd secretly come, but the rapture will be a secret. So if that was so secret when He come [the first time], how much more will the rapture be unknown. See? Directly they'll say, "Well, I thought we were supposed to have a rapture and all this judgment upon the earth." He said, "It's already taken place, and you didn't know it" (ibid, p. 238:5).

Jesus chose seventy ministers and sent them forth in pairs "as lambs among wolves" to forerun His campaign. They returned rejoicing that even demons were subject to them in His Name, but when He shared the revelation of His Message they were unable to receive it, and like the Pentecostals, "walked with Him no more" (Luke 10:1-23; John 6:53-67). The 'second pull' of Brother Branham's ministry was the Messianic sign of Hebrews 13:8, "discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart," (Luke 17:28-30). This is how he described a breakfast meeting where he was invited to address the Greater Ministerial Association of Chicago:

"Look in Chicago, greater Chicago, when them three hundred preachers setting there. . . The Lord told me that night what they was going to do. They had a trap set for me. And I went and told Brother Carlson; I said, "You'll not have it in that hotel. You'll have to take it to another place, and it'd be a green room.

And I said, "They got a trap set for me. Why, Brother Carlson? Are you afraid to tell me why, you and Tommy Hicks?" They dropped their head. I said, "Tommy, why don't you go speak?"

Said, "I couldn't do it."

I said, "I thought you said you'd do me a favor." I said, "Last night the Lord told me, 'You're going down there today, and you find out you're not going to get that building. You're going to another building. Dr. Mead will be setting on this side, that colored man and his wife that sings will be setting right here and so forth, where they'll all be setting. There'd be a Buddha priest there." And I said, "Now, find out. They got it against me because I preach the water baptism in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. They got it against me because I preach the Serpent's seed, and against the evidence that every man speaks with tongues has got the Holy Ghost and things." I said, "Come down and watch God."

Sometime that afternoon, they called up Brother Carlson and he said. The guy that let him have that and paid a down-payment on it said, "We have to cancel, because the manager said he'd already promised it to a band for that morning."

And they couldn't have it. So we went out to the Town and Country. And Brother Carlson said, "There's one thing, you brethren might disagree with Brother Branham, but he's not scared to say what he believes. He told me these things would happen just exactly the way they are. Now, here he is. Let him speak for hisself."

I just took the Scripture, "I'm not disobedient to the heavenly vision," as Paul said. I said, "You've got it in for me for water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ. Better than three hundred of you introduced yourself as Doctor So-and-so and Doctor So-and-so." I said, "I haven't even got a grammar school education, but I challenge any man here to bring your Bible. That was the quietest crowd you ever heard. I said, "What's the matter, if you can't support it, then keep off of my back." That's right. A lot of howling when they're around the corner, but come face to face with the issue it's different. That's right.

Them men went out. Tommy Hicks said, "I want three hundred of those tapes to send to every trinitarian preacher I know of." Them men shaking my hands said, "We'll come down to the Tabernacle and be baptized over." Where they at? Excuses. "I can't do it; my denomination won't let me do it." "I married a wife." "I bought a yoke of ox, I bought a piece of ground; I got to go look at it." See? Some of those things like. . . Excuses, is that right? Is that life worthy of the Gospel? If the Gospel's right, let's sell out everything we've got and live for it. Be a Christian. Yes, sir. Amen. Notice now as we close.

[Seventy ministers asked to be rebaptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and not one of them followed through on his commitment to Christ].

But their excuses is their creeds and their denominations. It's like a tree. I was looking at Brother Banks the other day. I had a pine tree I planted when I first moved up there about, oh, about fifteen years ago or better. And I let the branches grow out on the pine tree, and we couldn't get the mower back under there. And there wasn't a sprig of grass anyhow. And I went out there and took a saw, and sawed them limbs off until that pine tree was way up here where you could walk under it with a mower; and the prettiest bunch of grass you ever seen is under it now. What was it? The seed was there. It had to get the light. See, see?

And as long as the denomination, your excuses, try to shadow that seed that you know actually lays there, you're taking the part of Lot. Throw them things away and let the Gospel Light shine in upon there, the power of Jesus Christ. Yes. Keeping the Light off of it will keep it from living, for if the Light ever gets to it, it will spring forth to Life. That's the reason the people say, "Don't go to some of them kind of meetings." They're afraid some of the Light will strike one of their members" (Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel, p. 47:232-239).

Revelation 6:5-6, "When the Lamb had opened the Third Seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked and saw a black horse; and he who sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a Voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine".

The third living creature guarding the way into the Presence by the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a cherub with the face of a man, which in the New Testament was Dr. Luke's Gospel, and the Voice was the Holy Spirit, Christ, on the Throne. Man is the most intelligent of all creatures, and under the Third Seal God raised up godly men of supreme intelligence: great scholars and teachers full of the Holy Spirit who became the reformers of the Roman Catholic system of false worship following her violent and bloody excesses of the Dark Ages which were not completely put down until the mid-nineteenth century. Neither before nor since has the Lord raised such highly gifted Christian savants. Under this Seal, Lucifer added demonic power to the spiritual and political power he gained over mankind riding his white and red-coloured horses. The Third Seal covers the Sardis (1520-1750) and Philadelphia (1750-1906) Church Ages, the ministry of whose angels, Martin Luther and John Wesley turned Satan's world upside down. Luther's main Message smote Satan's Roman church a mortal blow from which she has never recovered. He is best known for restoring the foundational doctrine of the Bible, "justification by grace through faith" alone, against Rome's wicked dogma of "earning righteousness by works," which is to make God man's debtor. If human works can justify a man before the Lord, Christ died in vain. Hebrews 11:6, "Without faith it is impossible to please God: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

The virtues manifest in the saints born under the Third Seal confirm Zechariah 4:6-7, that the Church of the Living God overcomes not by works of human might nor power but by grace through faith in God's Spirit. Thus while Satan unleashed the demonic force of his Roman Catholic false church, which Jesus called "the synagogue of Satan," the token of the Life of Christ in the elect of the Sardis Age (1520-1750) manifest in "patience." In the Philadelphia Age (1750-1906), his demonic forces wrought a century of revolution throughout Europe and in the United States as weak rulers lost confidence in themselves and yielded to various demands from their rivals. Such compromises by rulers, or rapidly improving social conditions create a revolution of rising expectations, and if changes fail to keep pace with expectations, the people lose faith in their rulers and succumb to the allurements of revolutionary leaders.

The Industrial Revolution in the Philadelphian Church Age changed the basic nature of Western society from rural to cold and impersonal urban life, where most lived and worked under harsh conditions. The close relationships between employers, who felt some responsibility for their workers became impossible in the large factories. Most factory workers were desperately poor and illiterate, and migration from rural areas caused severe overcrowding in extremely unsanitary conditions that led to outbreaks of disease. Moral conditions deteriorated to ungodliness, encouraging theft, drunkenness, prostitution, infidelity, an explosion of illegitimate births, infanticide, and "rebellion, which is the sin of witchcraft" (I Samuel 15:23).

Mammon became god and in time the export of capital by the banksters of the 'City of London' to finance importers in other countries, mines and plantations, construction of railways and the export of locomotives and rolling stock, became far more important than the export of British manufactures, until today their demonic power of usury has overcome the governments in every nation; if not by the declining quality of character and leadership, then by bloody rebellion.

Although Sunday schools have existed since the 1500s, the present-day Sunday school movement started in Gloucester, England, by the publisher Robert Raikes when in 1780 he launched his "Ragged school." He sought to aid the children of the poor in his community both Spiritually and socially by teaching them reading, writing, and inculcating Christian principles. The great missionary age of Philadelphia spread Sunday schools to all parts of the world.

In contrast to the conditions prevailing throughout the Philadelphian Church Age, the virtue of the saints of this Age was "godliness." John Wesley's Message added the revelation of Sanctification or Scriptural holiness to Luther's Message of Justification. What a contrast to Roman Catholicism, which Jesus foresaw as a "woman arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a Name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [In contrast to Israel's high priest who bore "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD" on his forehead]. And the woman was drunken with the blood of the saints, even with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when John the Divine saw her, he was incredulous."

During his lifetime Wesley could have acquired vast wealth; but he did not. His favorite saying on the subject of money was, "Get all you can, save all you can, and give all you can." How strange it would be for Wesley to come back and see the denomination that bears the name of Methodist today. They are rich—vastly rich. But the life and power of John Wesley is missing. Wesley never did desire to build a work upon a denominational or sectarian basis. Though he was an Armenian in his beliefs, he did not want to separate himself from brethren on the grounds of doctrine. He was a good candidate for James: He based his eternal life on faith and works, or the living of the life—for works is faith expressed—rather than simply accepting a creed or a doctrinal statement. John Wesley died at the age of 88 having served God as few men would dare to even think they might, and in his Age missionaries delivered the Gospel throughout the world.

To bring the Words of I Kings 18:21 into the context of the New Testament, "Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long will you limp between two opinions? if the Lord is God, follow him: but if the Baal, then follow the Roman Catholic church and her (once) Protestant harlot daughters." See Matthew 25:1-13 and Revelation 18:1-4.

Having ridden through rivers of human blood, Satan changed to a black horse which signifies the Dark Ages in which he separated the people and kings from their wealth. Wheat and barley are the staff of natural life, whereas Jesus is the Bread of Spiritual Life through prayer and "the foolishness of preaching the whole counsel of God." The Roman Catholic church was charging for prayer (mass), and Novenas. (A nine days' private or public devotion in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces). The novena is permitted and even recommended by ecclesiastical authority, but still has no proper and fully set place in the liturgy of the Church. It has, however, more and more been prized and utilized by the faithful. Four kinds of novenas can be distinguished: novenas of mourning, of preparation, of prayer, and the indulgenced novenas (the extra-sacramental remission of the temporal punishment due, in God's justice, to sin that has been forgiven, which remission is granted by the Church in the exercise of the power of the keys, through the application of the superabundant merits of Christ and of the saints, and for some just and reasonable motive), though this distinction is not exclusive). Now you know where to obtain release from the mythical purgatory for real money.

This is a Satanic money racket, for Jesus Christ "is the expiation for our sins; and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world" (I John 2:2). But Roman Catholics, being unbelievers do not accept Him as "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29; Isaiah 53:5), and pay their church which can neither forgive nor forget sins.

In 1517, a "Dominican monk, named John Diezel, or Tetzel, the son of a goldsmith of Leipsic" declared: "Indulgences avail not only for the living but for the dead." Pope Boniface VIII had enacted this doctrine two centuries before; but, [Jewish] Pope Leo X [known as Leo the Khazar] was now using it and Tetzel to restore the empty coffers of the Vatican. And, Tetzel went on to make particular application of the dogma of indulgences. "Priest, noble, merchant, wife, youth, maiden, do you not hear your parents and your other friends who are dead, and who cry from the bottom of the abyss: 'We are suffering horrible torments! A trifling alms would deliver us; you can give it, and you will not?'"

Tetzel then delivered these chilling words. "At the very instant that the money rattles at the bottom of the chest, the soul escapes from purgatory, and flies liberated to heaven. Now you can ransom so many souls, stiff-necked and thoughtless man; with twelve groats you can deliver your father from purgatory, and you are ungrateful enough not to save him! I shall be justified in the Day of Judgment; but you—you will be punished so much the more severely for having neglected so great salvation. I declare to you, though you have but a single coat, you ought to strip it off and sell it, in order to obtain this grace. . . The Lord our God no longer reigns, he has resigned all power to the Pope" (J.A. Wylie, History of Protestantism, Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 8, p. 400-402).

II Peter 2:3, "Motivated by greed, they will exploit you with false words: from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep".

These indulgences were sold by Tetzel in the form of a letter: "May our Lord Jesus Christ have pity on thee, N. N., and absolve thee by the merits of His most holy passion. And I, by virtue of the apostolic power which has been confided to me, do absolve thee from all ecclesiastical censures, judgments, and penalties which thou mayest have merited, and from all excesses, sins, and crimes which thou mayest have committed, however great or enormous they may be, and for whatsoever cause, even though they had been reserved to our most Holy Father the Pope and the Apostolic See. I efface all attainders of unfitness and all marks of infamy thou mayest have drawn on thee on this occasion; I remit the punishment thou shouldest have had to endure in purgatory; I make thee anew a participator in the Sacraments of the Church; I incorporate thee afresh in the communion of the saints; and I reinstate thee in the innocence and purity in which thou wast at the hour of thy baptism; so that, at the hour of thy death, the gate through which is the entrance to the place of torments and punishments shall be closed against thee, and that which leads to the Paradise of joy shall be open. And shouldest thou be spared long, this grace shall remain immutable to the time of thy last end. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. . . Brother John Tetzel, Commissioner, has signed it with his own hand" (ibid, p. 403-404).

At that time, Luther was a university professor, preacher, and confessor; since he still ignorantly held allegiance to the Church of Rome. "One day, as he sat in the confessional, some citizens of Wittemberg came before him, and confessed having committed thefts, adulteries, and other heinous sins. 'You must abandon your evil courses,' said Luther, 'otherwise I cannot absolve you.' To his surprise and grief, they replied that they had no thought of leaving off their sins; that this was not in the least necessary, inasmuch as these sins were already pardoned, and they themselves secured against the punishment of them. The deluded people would thereupon pull out the indulgence papers of Tetzel, and show them in testimony of their innocence. Luther could only tell them that these papers were worthless, that they must repent, and be forgiven of God, otherwise they should perish everlastingly" (ibid, Chapter 9, p. 408).

These dupes of Rome had actually purchased indulgences for uncommitted sins they lusted to commit in the future. Luther differed more widely with the Church of Rome than he was aware of. He wrote, "The Papacy is a general chase led by the Roman bishop to catch and destroy souls" (The Babylonish Captivity of the Church).

Oil typifies the Holy Spirit (Leviticus 8:12; Zechariah 4:12; Matthew 25:3-12), whereas wine symbolizes the stimulation of Spiritual revelation with joy and song and reverence as the fermented fruit of the vine excites the mortal spirit. If the stimulation is generated by true revelation, it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD according to the written Word from Genesis to Revelation. I have been in churches where the congregation spoke and sang in the Spirit, but rejected the revelation of water baptism when it was presented to them. I was told "The Word divides, while the spirit unites," yet God's Word is Spirit in a form we can receive by faith (Romans 10:14-17). In another church the congregation were so stimulated they were running round and around the aisles, yet the pastor was a felon and not in the faith. Other churches build doctrine by adding quote upon quote to justify polygamy and replacement rather than redemption of souls. Others actually divided the Seven Thunders, nominating seven ministers to evoke the seven virtues of II Peter 1:1-8. Still others look forward to the return of God's prophet to preach a campaign of tent meetings, while one actually purchased an aeroplane and hired a pilot (since deceased) to fly the resurrected prophet around the world gathering the saints for a hardly secret rapture. Without exception these people were "stimulated" by "a zeal of God . . . but not according to knowledge" (Romans 10:2).

On the day of Pentecost God fulfilled Joel 2:28 by pouring out His Spirit upon those in the upper room, and subsequently upon thousands who gathered to hear the new-born saints (Acts 2). This was the vindication of Isaiah 28:11-12, "With stammering lips and another tongue will God speak to this people, to whom He said, This is the rest you shall give to the weary, and this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen." This is confirmed in Acts 3:19, "Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the Presence of the Lord".

Isaiah was prophesying the "Place of God's rest," which is in Christ (Isaiah 66:1). "This is the rest [or true sabbath] and this is the refreshing with stammering lips and another tongue"—not a drunken surfeit of the grape, or glossalalia—but the "former rain" regenerating and refreshing the soul with an outpouring of the "new wine" of His Spirit. The Bible does not imply that on the day of Pentecost the new-born saints spoke to the assembled multitude in unknown tongues. They spoke in their native Galilean and "every man heard them speak in his own language" (Acts 2:6).

A sister wrote after her pastor "preached on the Holy Spirit and said many good things. I still have a question about what Brother Branham called the "true Baptism of the Holy Spirit" So many people profess it in several different ways. Some think you need to speak in tongues, others say you need to "feel" something, others say you only believe this Message of truth, but I see no real manifesting of what Jesus Christ did no matter what others say".

Brother Branham said, One of the mysteries that the angel to the Seventh Church Age is supposed to wind up is "The mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation, but the Person of Christ performing in you the same works that He did" (Is This the Sign of the End-Time Sir, p. 32:1). And whenever he used the expression, "the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit," He pointed to our coming under preeminence to the revealed Word of God. This was how the Reformers were correcting the Church under the Third Seal.

Jesus said, "This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29). And in Brother Branham's Message, Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, to which every one of his sermons point, he explained God's threefold purpose is:

to express the fullness of Himself bodily in Jesus Christ

to have the preeminence by Jesus Christ in His Body of believers

to restore that which was lost to Eden. The evidence of the true baptism with the Holy Spirit, which is the new birth, is that by your clear revelation of the Message of the angel to your dispensation your life becomes an epistle of his Message, known and read by all men. The Message of this day will not reflect the PART-Word Message of any of the seven Church Age Messengers—Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley, or William Branham, but the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Word whom Brother Branham introduced (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7).

The Body of Christ is Spiritually redeemed or born-again under the first Four Seals of the Book of Revelation, and physically redeemed under the Seventh Seal. Concerning the Third Seal, Jesus said, "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (Matthew 24:7). And between 1520 and 1906 there were scores of wars and revolutions as you may see in this list or wars. Major famines over this time killed tens of millions of Chinese and Indians, and about 750,000 potato-eating Irish. Influenza, cholera, typhus, dysentery, tuberculosis, scurvy, small pox and bubonic plague were common in England and Europe under the Third Seal. The 1,390,000 lives lost in major earthquakes over this period are not many more than the death toll in one or two years today in the latter end of the Fourth Seal. nl641.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.